{"id":13379,"date":"2020-01-29T20:32:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/29\/uk-trade-minister-met-with-surveillance-firm-implicated-in-uighur-abuses-department-for-international-trade"},"modified":"2020-01-29T20:32:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:32:56","slug":"uk-trade-minister-met-surveillance-firm-implicated-in-uighur-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13379","title":{"rendered":"UK trade minister met surveillance firm implicated in Uighur abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facial recognition firm SenseTime discussed use of AI in universities with government<\/p>\n<p>A government trade minister held a one-on-one meeting with a facial recognition firm accused of enabling the Chinese government\u2019s campaign of persecution against Uighur Muslims, the Guardian and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebureauinvestigates.com\/\">the Bureau of Investigative Journalism <\/a>have established.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Stuart, a minister at the Department for International Trade (DIT), met representatives from SenseTime, a Hong Kong-based surveillance technology firm, on 11 June last year to discuss the use of artificial intelligence and data in higher education.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/29\/uk-trade-minister-met-with-surveillance-firm-implicated-in-uighur-abuses-department-for-international-trade\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facial recognition firm SenseTime discussed use of AI in universities with governmentA government trade minister held a one-on-one meeting with a facial recognition firm accused of enabling the Chinese government\u2019s campaign of persecution against Uighu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":884,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,891,862,48,4,474,67,52,694,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-facial-recognition","category-higher-education","category-hong-kong","category-politics","category-surveillance","category-uighurs","category-uk-news","category-universities","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13397,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions\/13397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}